Carlos Walker, for arguing with me about film for hours on end and for getting me into free movies for three years.
Dave Ramstad, for telling me about the journalism program at Contra Costa College.
Paul DeBolt, for being the best journalism instructor in California.
Melanie Reyes, for hooking me up with the DR gig.
Andrew Rhoades for the SPLICEDguy logo.
George Szakall, George Chen, Babette Canton, the staff of the Daily Republic, my contacts at NBCi, Mom & Pappy, Doc Lil', & anyone I forgot to mention.

Believe it or not, award-winning SPLICEDwire is a one-man show. Rob Blackwelder, a professional film critic since 1995, began the site and content service in 1996 to provide movie coverage to newspapers that didn't want to run the same old wire reviews but couldn't afford their own staff critics. He has written over 2,200 reviews and 200 interviews, which have appeared in dozens of publications, and he provides on-air reviews for KGO 810AM in San Francisco.

Put simply, SPLICEDwire can provide weekly movie coverage -- including reviews, interviews, Oscar coverage and other features -- customized for your web site, radio station or print publication for less per week than you probably spend on groceries. And all of it is written in critic Rob Blackwelder's knowledgeable, droll but entertainingly accessible style.

Film critic/interviewer/feature writer/webmonkey/sleep deprivation expert Rob Blackwelder has been studying film and pontificating about movies since he was a smart-mouthed teenager in Boulder, Colorado. He moved to Oakland, California in 1990 and shortly thereafter began studying journalism.

He won numerous awards as the entertainment editor of The Advocate, multi-National Pacemaker-winning newspaper at Contra Costa College. When he graduated from college, he realized that he could not give up writing about movies -- his favorite part of working at the college paper -- even if he had to hold a day job to do it. Through a friend he finagled a freelance gig writing one review a week for the Daily Republic in Fairfield, California, which kept him on the studios' mailing lists. In 1996, Rob started a web site called Movieolla and before long was being chased by cease-and-desist lawyers for the people who make the Moviola editing equipment, the motion picture industry's (pre-digital) workhorse for cutting and splicing film. Hmm, thought Rob, splicing! And thus was born SPLICEDwire, which now provides customized movie review and feature content to newspapers (including the Daily Republic) and several other web sites.

For ages Rob had no biographical information posted to this site, and finally his mother got fed up and wrote a bio for him, which he foolishly promised to post, sight unseen. If you care to read this embarrassing tome, click here.

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